Word: objet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years Princeton University's department of art and archeology has been patiently indexing every known objet d'art of the Christian world of the first 13 centuries, A.D. Over 75,000 trinkets and treasures have been catalogued. Last week the department announced that an anonymous gift of $100,000 would greatly accelerate the project. Completion, said Princeton proudly, is now expected within the first half of the 20th Century...
...Vienna. By 1923 it had become a world affair, reached the U. S. in 1926. No longer hidden under a bushel of schoolboys' papers, Spengler's threatening light shines now from a huge-roomed Munich apartment overlooking the Isar. He has collected many a painting and objet d'art, a library of several thousand volumes. Said he once: "There are two more works that I have to write. When they are done, I am going to throw my library into the Isar." Though he is German to the marrow, Spengler has a passion for Italy, visits...
...years ago, Dr. Lowell lived at 171 Marlborough Street. After a long residence in the wilds of Cambridge Province he has at last returned to the metropolis; to the same house, in fact. Through the best domestic intelligence we learn that every book, every bridge-lamp, every objet d'art and ash tray is in the exact same spot, facing the very same way as during the reign of President Eliot. Maybe this homecoming was in President Lowell's mind when, in 1909, he had large photographs made of every room and every corner. By means of these pictures, probably...